Diatom contour analysis using morphological curvature scale spaces
Michael H.F. Wilkinson, Jos B.T.M. Roerdink, Stephen Droop and Micha Bayer. Diatom contour analysis using morphological curvature scale spaces. In: Proc. 15th Intern. Conf. on Pattern Recognition (ICPR'2000), Barcelona, Sep. 3-7, pp. 656-659, 2000.
A method for shape analysis of diatoms (single-cell algae with silica shells) based on extraction of features on the contour of the cells by multi-scale mathematical morphology is presented. After building a morphological contour curvature scale space, we present a method for extracting the most prominent features by unsupervised cluster analysis. The number of extracted features matches well with those found visually in 92 % of the 350 diatom images examined.
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